• 제목/요약/키워드: Act on life-sustaining treatment

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성년후견과 의료 -개정 민법 제947조의 2를 중심으로- (The Adult Guardianship and Medical Issue According to the Amendments of Civil Code)

  • 박호균
    • 의료법학
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    • 제13권1호
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    • pp.125-153
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    • 2012
  • The adult guardianship system has been introduced through amendments of Korean Civil Code for the first time in the March 2011(Act No. 10429, 7. 1. 2013. enforcement). The adult guardianship system has the main purposes to provide a lot of help vulnerable adults and elderly, and protect them on the welfare related with property act, treatment, care, etc. There could be a controversy about whether the protection Legal Guardian's consent(formerly known as the Mental Health Act) or permission of the Family Court(revised Civil Code) are required to, or the Mental Health Act should be revised, when mental patient will be hospitalized forcibly. The author proposes that mental patient with Adult guardians should be determined by Legal Guardian's consent and approval of the Family Court, but mental patient without Adult guardians could be determined by Legal Guardian's consent. The issue of Withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment could be occurred due to the aging society and the development of modern medicine, and this has provided difficult, various problems to mankind in Legal, ethical, and social welfare aspects. The need of Death with dignity law or Natural death law has been reduced for a revision of the Civil Code. Therefore, on the issue of Withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment, in the future, intervention of the court is necessary in accordance with the revised Civil Code Section, and Organ Transplantation Act and the brain death criteria may serve as an important criterion.

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조력사망(Aid in Dying)에 대한 고찰 (A Study on Aid in Dying)

  • 이지은
    • 의료법학
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    • 제23권2호
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    • pp.67-96
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    • 2022
  • 인간의 존엄성과 환자의 자율성에 터잡아 연명의료의 중단이 제도화된 이래, 최근에는 스스로 존엄하게 죽음에 이르기 위해 환자가 자기 생명을 단축시키고자 의료적 도움을 받을 권리가 있는지, 그러한 행위가 어느 범위에서 정당화될 수 있는지의 문제가 활발하게 논의되고 있다. 우리나라에서는 2016년 연명의료결정법의 제정으로 연명의료중단이 제도화된 이래 여러 차례 개정을 거쳤는데, 최근에는 '조력존엄사'를 합법화하기 위한 내용의 연명의료결정법 개정안이 발의되었다. 이번 개정안에서는 조력존엄사를 '환자의 의사로 담당의사의 조력을 통해 스스로 삶을 종결하는 것'으로 정의하고 있는데, 이는 네덜란드, 벨기에 등의 유럽 국가와 미국 일부 주에서 시행되고 있는 조력사망(Aid in Dying)에 해당하는 내용으로 보인다. 조력사망이란 의사결정능력이 있는 환자가 치료가 불가능한 질병으로 고통을 받고 있을 때 환자가 사망을 앞당길 수 있는 약물을 의사로부터 처방받아 이를 이용하여 사망에 이르는 것을 의미한다. 존엄사에 대한 논의는 연명의료중단에서 조력사망의 순서로 진행되는 것이 세계적 추세인데, 2000년대에 이르러 일부 국가에서는 조력사망, 나아가 적극적 안락사까지 합법화하였다. 미국에서는 오리건 주를 필두로 여러 주에서 조력사망을 인정하는 법률을 두고 있지만 적극적 안락사에 대해서는 금지하고 있다. 이 논문에서는 일찌기 존엄한 죽음에 관한 논의를 시작하여 환자의 자기결정권을 제도화한 미국의 일부 주에서 조력사망의 입법화가 어떤 과정을 거쳐 이루어졌는지를 살펴보고 캘리포니아의 임종선택법의 주요 내용과 법시행 이후의 결과를 분석하였다.

무의미한 연명치료 중단 등의 기준에 관한 재고 - 대법원 2009.5.21 선고 2009다17417사건 판결을 중심으로 - (Review on the Justifiable Grounds for Withdrawal of Meaningless Life-sustaining Treatment -Based on a case of Supreme Court's Sentence No. 2009DA17417 (May 21, 2009)-)

  • 문성제
    • 의료법학
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.309-341
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    • 2009
  • According to a case of Supreme Court's Sentence No. 2009DA17417 (May 21, 2009), the Supreme Court judges that 'the right to life is the ultimate one of basic human rights stipulated in the Constitution, so it is required to very limitedly and conservatively determine whether to discontinue any medical practice on which patient's life depends directly.' In addition, the Supreme Court admits that 'only if a patient who comes to a fatal phase before death due to attack of any irreversible disease may execute his or her right of self-determination based on human respect and values and human right to pursue happiness, it is permissible to discontinue life-sustaining treatment for him or her, unless there is any special circumstance.' Furthermore, the Supreme Court finds that 'if a patient who is attacked by any irreversible disease informs medical personnel of his or her intention to agree on the refusal or discontinuance of life-sustaining treatment in advance of his or her potential irreversible loss of consciousness, it is justifiable that he or she already executes the right of self-determination according to prior medical instructions, unless there is any special circumstance where it is reasonably concluded that his or her physician is changed after prior medical instructions for him or her.' The Supreme Court also finds that 'if a patient remains at irreversible loss of consciousness without any prior medical instruction, he or she cannot express his or her intentions at all, so it is rational and complying with social norms to admit possibility of estimating his or her own intentions on withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, provided that such a withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment meets his or her interests in view of his or her usual sense of values or beliefs and it is reasonably concluded that he or she could likely choose to discontinue life-sustaining treatment, even if he or she were given any chance to execute his or her right of self-determination.' This judgment is very significant in a sense that it suggests the reasonable orientation of solutions for issues posed concerning withdrawal of meaningless life-sustaining medical efforts. The issues concerning removal of medical instruments for meaningless life-sustaining treatment and discontinuance of such treatment in regard to medical treatment for terminal cases don't seem to be so much big deal when a patient has clear consciousness enough to express his or her intentions, but it counts that there is any issue regarding a patient who comes to irreversible loss of consciousness and cannot express his or her intentions. Therefore, it is required to develop an institutional instrument that allows relevant authority to estimate the scope of physician's medical duties for terminal patients as well as a patient's intentions to withdraw any meaningless treatment during his or her terminal phase involving loss of consciousness. However, Korean judicial authority has yet to clarify detailed cases where it is permissible to discontinue any life-sustaining treatment for a patient in accordance with his or her right of self-determination. In this context, it is inevitable and challenging to make better legislation to improve relevant systems concerning withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. The State must assure the human basic rights for its citizens and needs to prepare a system to assure such basic rights through legislative efforts. In this sense, simply entrusting physician, patient or his or her family with any critical issue like the withdrawal of meaningless life-sustaining treatment, even without any reasonable standard established for such entrustment, means the neglect of official duties by the State. Nevertheless, this issue is not a matter that can be resolved simply by legislative efforts. In order for our society to accept judicial system for withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, it is important to form a social consensus about this issue and also make proactive discussions on it from a variety of standpoints.

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보건의료관련 법령의 동의에 관한 민법적 검토 (Review and Interpretation of Health Care Laws Based on Civil Law)

  • 이재경
    • 의료법학
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    • 제23권4호
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    • pp.75-102
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    • 2022
  • 본 글에서는 보건의료관련 법령 중 「연명의료결정법」, 「정신건강복지법」, 「장기이식법」, 「인체조직법」, 「약사법」, 「에이즈예방법」, 「결핵예방법」, 「감염병예방법」을 검토하였다. 이들 법률에 민법적 사고가 필요한 부분은 환자의 자기결정권과 동의에 관한 부분이다. 그리고 환자가족을 통한 의사결정이 환자의 의사결정을 대행하는 것인지 환자가족이 환자를 위하여 고유의 권한으로 의사를 결정하는 것인지와 관련하여 성년후견제도에서 후견인의 동의대행과 비교하여 이해할 필요가 있다. 보건의료관련 법령은 환자의 자기결정권과 그 실현을 위한 동의대행의 문제에서 민법과 깊게 연관되어 있음에도 불구하고 개개 법률의 관련 규정은 민법의 동의에 관한 원칙이나 성년후견제도와 별개로 규정되어 있음을 확인할 수 있다. 보건의료관련법령의 일차적 목적이 환자의 자기결정권 실현에 있지 않다고 하더라도 의료관련 행정이 통일적으로 운영되기 위해서는 민법의 의사결정 및 그 대행에 관한 원칙을 이해할 필요가 있다.

Comparing Perceptions, Determinants, and Needs of Patients, Family Members, Nurses, and Physicians When Making Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies

  • Kim, Semi;Ham, Eun Hye;Kim, Dong Yeon;Jang, Seung Nam;Kim, Min kyeong;Choi, Hyun Ah;Cho, Yun A;Lee, Seung A;Yun, Min Jeong
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.12-24
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: This descriptive study compared the perceptions, determinants, and needs of patients, family members, nurses, and physicians regarding life-sustaining treatment decisions for patients with hematologic malignancies in the hematology-oncology department of a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea. Methods: In total, 147 subjects were recruited, gave written consent, and provided data by completing a structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using analysis of variance, the chi-square test, and the Fisher exact test. Results: Nurses (F=3.35) and physicians (F=3.57) showed significantly greater familiarity with the Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment than patients (F=2.69) and family members (F=2.59); (F=19.58, P<0.001). Many respondents, including 19 (51.4%) family members, 16 (43.2%) physicians, and 11 (29.7%) nurses, agreed that the patient's opinion had the greatest effect when making life-sustaining treatment decisions. Twelve (33.3%) patients answered that mental, physical, and financial burdens were the most important factors in life-sustaining treatment decisions, and there was a significant difference among the four groups (P<0.001). Twenty-four patients (66.7%), 27 (73.0%) family members, and 21(56.8%) nurses answered that physicians were the most appropriate people to provide information regarding life-sustaining treatment decisions. Unexpectedly, 19 (51.4%) physicians answered that hospice nurse practitioners were the most appropriate people to talk to about life-sustaining treatment (P<0.001). Conclusion: It is of utmost importance that the patient and physician determine when life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn, with the patient making the ultimate decision. Doctors and nurses have the responsibility to provide detailed information. The goal of end-of-life planning is to ensure patients' dignity and respect their values.

연명의료결정법 시행 이후 일반인과 의대생 대상 죽음교육 개선을 위한 예비연구 (A Preliminary Study to Improve Death Education for the Public and Medical Students after the Enforcement of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision Act)

  • 김정아;안경진
    • 의학교육논단
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    • 제24권2호
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    • pp.113-127
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    • 2022
  • Considering the recent medicalization of death, the importance of preparing both laypersons and medical students to have meaningful end-of-life conversations, which is among the objectives of death education, will grow. The Act of Hospice and Palliative Care and Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients at the End of Life provided a new source of momentum to death education for both laypersons and medical professionals, as the importance of education on death is widely recognized. However, problems remain regarding how to prepare people for productive conversations at the end-of-life and how to secure the continuity of care. Different focuses and deficiencies are observed in death education programs for each category of learner. In education for laypeople, tangible information on how to actualize one's existential and personal understanding of death through real-life options is lacking, except for presenting the "protocol" of the Act. Conversely, basic medical education lacks an understanding of or confrontation with death on the existential and personal levels. Death education should aim to build a shared understanding that can facilitate communication between the two groups. The scant overlap between layperson education and basic medical education even after the Act's enactment is worrisome. Further fundamental changes in death education are required regarding its content. Topics that patients and doctors can share and discuss regarding death and end-of-life care should be discovered and provided as educational content both to laypeople and future medical professionals.

치료중단행위에 대한 의료형법적 고찰 -의학적 충고에 반한 퇴원 사례를 중심으로- (A Study on Medical-criminal Problem of Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment)

  • 조인호
    • 의료법학
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    • 제9권1호
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    • pp.319-382
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    • 2008
  • As a withdrawing care's study, the purpose of this study is searching about withdrawing care's acceptance and circumstances through Bora-mae hospital case(chapter 1). Withdrawing life-sustaining treatment has various forms. Though the meaning of euthanasia, death with dignity, natural death, physician assisted suicide are duplicated, the meaning of those are different slightly. Firstly, this study looks about the difference of the those meaning and acceptance range(condition) by withdrawing care's forms(chapter 2). Bora-mae hospital case sentenced guilty about physician who discharged incompetent patient who was after surgery by patient's wife determination. This Bora-mae case that sentenced guilty about discharge against medical advise(DAMA) that is regarded to custom has brought intensive confliction of legal, social, medical aspect, Bora-mae hospital case has many legal problems. First, as to criminal law rule 250(murder), the problem is whether discharge and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment is commission or omission. this study concluded omission(district court: omission, appeal, supreme court: commission). Because legal denounce point of discharge and medical treatment withdrawing is omission that physician who is obligatory on patient to cure. If physician's act is regarded omission, it is necessary to determine whether he has guardian status and obligation. Without guardian status and obligation, omission crime can't exist. This study decided that physician had guardian status and obligation and foundation of guardian status was pre-action or acceptance of emergency patient. Physician's medical treatment duty finished when patient(or patient's guardian) demands discharge. But when patient death is foreseen and other possible treatment does not exist, his duty of life prolonging treatment does not finish. This originate from physician's social responsibility and public status that limits patient's private liberty. This study regarded physician's action as accomplice about whether physician's discharging action is accomplice or the principal offender(district court: the principal offender, appeal, supreme court: accomplice). Though the principal offender needs criminal determination and action, there is no this common determination and functional action control of physician in Bora-mae case(chapter 3). Bora-mae hospital case partly originated from deficiency of legal, institutive system including medical security system shortage, the instruction is 1. medical security system strengthening, 2. hospital ethical committee's activity strengthening, 3. institutionalization of withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, 4. acceptance of pre-decision making system, 5. sufficient persuasion of physician for patient and faithful writing of medical paper, 6. respect for patients' self-determination and rights, 7. consciousness's changing for withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and persistent education about medical ethics(chapter 4). Considering Bora-mae case, medical sector is not the dead ground of a criminal punishment. Intervention of criminal law in medical sector give rise to ill effect, that is, excess medical examination and treatment, safeguard treatment, delay of discharge from a hospital. Because sufficient guarantee of life becomes mere empty slogan under situation that impose a burden of heavy cost to family or hospital, public and systematic solution should be given(chapter 5).

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연명의료결정법의 문제점 및 개선 방안 (The Problems and the Improvement Plan of the Hospice/Palliative Care and Dying Patient's Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment Act)

  • 김명희
    • Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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    • 제21권1호
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2018
  • 보라매 사건 이후 근 20년이 지나 국가위원회의 권고를 기반으로 연명의료결정법이 2018년 2월 4일 제정 시행되었다. 그러나 법률의 제정 과정에서 이해관계 당사자 및 관련자들의 의견 차이로 일부 내용은 수정 또는 삭제되었으며 제정 막바지에 호스피스 완화의료에 대한 내용이 덧붙여졌다. 이로 인해 국가위원회의 권고에 담긴 내용과는 일부 다르게 법률이 제정되어 여러 문제점들이 나타나고 있다. 그러므로 현행 법률 시행 초반 연명의료결정 수행 현장을 꼼꼼히 모니터링하고 다양한 관련자들의 의견을 잘 청취하여 문제점을 파악하고 해결 방안을 마련하여야 할 것이다. 이를 토대로 법률을 개정하여 입법 목적인 '환자의 최선의 이익을 보장하고 자기결정을 존중하여 인간으로서의 존엄과 가치를 보호'가 충실히 이루어질 수 있도록 하여야 할 것이다.

Recent Trends in the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Patients with Acute Cerebrovascular Disease : 2017-2021

  • Seung Hwan Kim;Ji Hwan Jang;Young Zoon Kim;Kyu Hong Kim;Taek Min Nam
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • 제67권1호
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2024
  • Objective : The Act on Life-Sustaining Treatment (LST) decisions for end-of-life patients has been effective since February 2018. An increasing number of patients and their families want to withhold or withdraw from LST when medical futility is expected. This study aimed to investigate the status of the Act on LST decisions for patients with acute cerebrovascular disease at a single hospital. Methods : Between January 2017 and December 2021, 227 patients with acute cerebrovascular diseases, including hemorrhagic stroke (n=184) and ischemic stroke (n=43), died at the hospital. The study period was divided into the periods before and after the Act. Results : The duration of hospitalization decreased after the Act was implemented compared to before (15.9±16.1 vs. 11.2±18.6 days, p=0.127). The rate of obtaining consent for the LST plan tended to increase after the Act (139/183 [76.0%] vs. 27/44 [61.4%], p=0.077). Notably, none of the patients made an LST decision independently. Ventilator withdrawal was more frequently performed after the Act than before (52/183 [28.4%] vs. 0/44 [0%], p<0.001). Conversely, the rate of organ donation decreased after the Act was implemented (5/183 [2.7%] vs. 6/44 [13.6%], p=0.008). Refusal to undergo surgery was more common after the Act was implemented than before (87/149 [58.4%] vs. 15/41 [36.6%], p=0.021) among the 190 patients who required surgery. Conclusion : After the Act on LST decisions was implemented, the rate of LST withdrawal increased in patients with acute cerebrovascular disease. However, the decision to withdraw LST was made by the patient's family rather than the patient themselves. After the execution of the Act, we also observed an increased rate of refusal to undergo surgery and a decreased rate of organ donation. The Act on LST decisions may reduce unnecessary treatments that prolong end-of-life processes without a curative effect. However, the widespread application of this law may also reduce beneficial treatments and contribute to a decline in organ donation.

조력사망에 관한 프랑스의 입법 동향 (Legislation on Aid in Dying in France)

  • 이지은
    • 의료법학
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.193-222
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    • 2024
  • 세계적 추세에서 볼 때, 환자의 존엄사에 대한 논의는 연명의료중단의 문제에서 점차 조력사망의 허용 여부와 그 요건에 대한 문제로 진행되고 있다. 미국의 여러 주와 캐나다, 벨기에, 네덜란드 등 서구유럽 국가에서는 의사의 조력을 통하여 사망시기를 앞당기는 치료를 제도화하였다. 프랑스에서는 오랜 시간 동안의 문제 제기와 검토 끝에, 다른 유럽 국가에 비해서는 완만한 속도로 관련 법제에 대한 논의가 이루어지고 있다. 프랑스에서는 20세기 후반부터 존엄사에 대한 사회적 논의와 입법적 시도가 활발히 이루어져 왔다. 2005년의 레오네티 법에 의해 환자의 의사에 반하는 무의미한 치료의 지속이 금지되었고 2016년 클레이-레오네티 법 이후 환자에게 강도 높고 지속적인 진정제를 사망시까지 투여하는 것을 합법화하였다. 그러나 이웃하는 다수의 유럽국가와 달리 프랑스에서는 사망 시기 자체를 앞당기는 처치는 환자가 원한다고 하여도 여전히 금지되고 있다. 임종기의 환자가 의사의 조력을 받아 고통 없이 사망에 이르는 것을 허용할 것인가에 대한 실존적이고 보편적인 질문이 최근 중요한 문제로 부각되면서 다수의 국회의원들이 조력사망을 합법화하는 내용의 법률안을 제출하였다. 이 논문에서는 프랑스에서 존엄한 죽음에 대한 환자의 권리(droit de mourir dans la dignité)와 관련하여 전개된 입법과정을 살펴보고 최근 조력사망의 합법화를 시도하는 프랑스의 법률안들을 우리 연명의료결정법 개정안과 비교·검토하고자 한다.